* 1869 – Charles Wilson, Scottish physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate ( d. 1959 )

* 1869 – F. A. Forbes, Scottish author ( d. 1936 )

* 1869 – David Robertson, Scottish golfer ( d. 1937 )

A man pours some whisky into a flask in this 1869 oil painting by Scottish artist Erskine Nicol. After the English Malt Tax of 1725, most of Scotland ’ s distillation was either shut down or forced underground.

* November 15 – Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1869 )

Thomas Graham FRS ( 21 December 1805 – 16 September 1869 ) was a nineteenth-century Scottish chemist who is best-remembered today for his pioneering work in dialysis and the diffusion of gases.

He became one of the Heralds overseas correspondents and, in 1869, was instructed by Bennett's son to find the Scottish missionary and explorer David Livingstone, who was known to be in Africa but had not been heard from for some time.

Alexander Dyce ( 30 June 1798 – 15 May 1869 ) was a Scottish dramatic editor and literary historian.

* William E. Somerville ( 1869 – 1950 ) a Scottish aircraft engineer

An example of iconic phonetic notation is the Visible Speech system, created by Scottish phonetician, Alexander Melville Bell ( Ellis 1869: 15 ).

John Wheatley ( 19 May 1869 – 12 May 1930 ) was a Scottish socialist politician.

* George Douglas Brown ( 1869 – 1902 ), Scottish novelist

William Jerdan ( 16 April 1782 – 11 July 1869 ), Scottish journalist, was born at Kelso, Scotland.

* November 15-C. T. R. Wilson ( born 1869 ), Scottish physicist ( Nobel Prize in Physics 1927 )

Founded in 1869, " Killie " is the oldest club currently in the Scottish Premier League.

* Charles Thomson Rees Wilson ( 1869 – 1959 ), Scottish physicist and Nobel Prize winner

* Sir John Graham Kerr ( 1869 – 1957 ), Scottish embryologist and Member of Parliament

* George Fordham – ( 1859 ), Nemesis ( 1861 ), Siberia ( 1865 ), Formosa ( 1868 ), Scottish Queen ( 1869 ), Thebais ( 1881 ), Hauteur ( 1883 )

* William Crawford ( artist ) ( died 1869 ), Scottish painter

i. of the Modern Scottish Minstrel ( 1857 ); Life and Songs of the Baroness Nairne, with a Memoir and Poems of Caroline Oliphant the Younger, edited by Charles Rogers ( 1869 ).

* William Reynolds ( VC ) ( 1827 – 1869 ), Scottish Victoria Cross recipient

William Reynolds VC ( 1827 – 20 October 1869 ) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

His brothers, Edward and William, were also MPs for Blackburn from 1869 to 1874, and from 1886 to 1910 respectively.

His sons, Edward Hornby and William, were also MPs for Blackburn from 1869 to 1874, and from 1886 to 1910 respectively.

In 1869, Verdi was asked to compose a section for a requiem mass in memory of Gioachino Rossini and proposed that this requiem should be a collection of sections composed by other Italian contemporaries of Rossini.

In 1869, Henry Keep, a former President of the New York Central Railroad, was dying and asked Roswell Flower, whose wife was a sister of Keep's wife Emma, to manage the $ 4, 000, 000 estate for his widow.

When, in 1869, the Reverend William Dower was asked by the Griqua to establish a mission, he agreed on condition that they resettle in a more suitable place on the banks of the Mzimhlava river.

It was at this time in 1869 that Vest was asked to represent Burden and Old Drum in the case that would make him famous.

After nearly a decade out of the political arena, Whyte was asked by then-governor Thomas Swann to fill the remainder of resigning senator Reverdy Johnson's term from July 13, 1868 to March 3, 1869.

In 1869 Lord Mayo, the then governor-general, asked Hunter to submit a scheme for a comprehensive Statistical Survey of India.

The Conference dates from 1869 when Edward Thring, Headmaster of Uppingham, asked sixty to seventy of his fellow headmasters, to meet at his house to consider the formation of a " School Society and Annual Conference ".

In the first edition of the Graphic newspaper that appeared in December 1869, Luke Fildes was asked to provide an illustration to accompany an article on the Houseless Poor Act, a new measure that allowed some of those people out of work shelter for a night in the casual ward of a workhouse.

in 1868 Gladstone proposed the Irish Church Resolutions to reunite the Liberal Party for government ( on the issue of disestablishment of the Church of Ireland – this would be done during Gladstone's First Government in 1869 and meant that Irish Roman Catholics did not need to pay their tithes to the Anglican Church of Ireland ).

When an unemployed miner ( Daniel Jones ) wrote to him to complain of his unemployment and low wages, Gladstone gave what H. C. G. Matthew has called " the classic mid-Victorian reply " on 20 October 1869:

In 1869, he declined the professorship of modern history at Cambridge, but in the same year accepted from Gladstone the deanery of Ely, and until his death devoted himself to the best interests of the cathedral, also receiving many honorary academical distinctions.

In 1869 he refused a canonry at Worcester, but in 1871 he accepted, most reluctantly ( calling it " a sacrifice en pure perte "), the deanery of St Paul's, to which he was nominated by WE Gladstone.

Gladstone said his mission was to pacify Ireland and with the Irish Church Act 1869 began with the disestablishment of the Anglican Church of Ireland whose members were a minority who made all political decisions in Ireland and would have largely voted Conservative.

The Church of Ireland was disestablished by the Gladstone government in 1869, and the tithe was abolished.

By 1869 pressure for a bridge had built up, and Matthew opposed the ideas with a letter to the Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone, and another to the local paper.

Gladstone's Liberal government had no explicit mandate for the Act, unlike the 1869 Disestablishment Act and so could expect some opposition from the English landlord class in the House of Lords, fearful for the implications of property rights in England, many of whom were Whigs that Gladstone relied on for support in Parliament.

In 1869 he was elected Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh against Gladstone, having already been Rector of the University of Aberdeen in 1857 – 1860 and Rector of the University of Glasgow in 1865.

Full relief from the oppressive tax was not achieved until the Irish Church Act 1869, which disestablished the Church of Ireland, by the Gladstone government.

Mr Gladstone, however, in 1869 called him to be Bishop of Salisbury, in which see he kept up the traditions of his predecessors, Bishops Hamilton and Denison, his chief addition being the summoning of a diocesan synod.